On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> Immutable strings sound good to me.
>
> How hard would it be to add UTF-8 strings to Spidermonkey? JSString already
> has a lot of "modes", perhaps one more wouldn't hurt :-). I'm imagining
> that for anything that required UTF-16 (charAt etc) you'd convert the
> string internals to UTF-16, and for passing into WebIDL we'd convert string
> internals to UTF-8.

I asked this a while ago and Waldo said it would be very difficult,
but I can't remember why.  I've CC'd him... (and Terrence, who has
been doing some string-related changes).

Nick
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